28. (General Physics) Also called: angle of dip, magnetic diporinclination the angle between the direction of the earth's magnetic field and the plane of the horizon; the angle that a magnetic needle free to swing in a vertical plane makes with the horizontal

29. (Cookery) a creamy mixture into which pieces of food are dipped before being eaten

30. (Surveying) surveying the angular distance of the horizon below the plane of observation

syn: dip, immerse, plunge refer to putting something into liquid. To dip is to put down into a liquid quickly or partially and lift out again: to dip a finger into water to test the temperature.immerse denotes a lowering into a liquid until covered by it: to immerse meat in salt water.plunge adds a suggestion of force or suddenness to the action of dipping: to plunge a lobster into boiling water.

dip - a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"

And Bashti's withered ancient hand, the back of it netted with a complex of large up-standing veins from which the flesh had shrunk away, dipped out a huge pistol of such remote vintage that one of Cromwell's round- heads might well have carried it or that it might well have voyaged with Quiros or La Perouse.

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